‘Vergänglichkeit’ and Death: a Comment on some Freudian Texts

by | Full text, Vol 19 (1/2) 2001

This article addresses the problem of the impossibility of a psychoanalytic Weltanschauung through a reading of Freud’s texts on war, death and transience and with reference to Freud’s membership of the B’nai B’rith. The link with clinical material leads the author to conclude that Freud’s insight into human nature, while enthusiastic, lacks optimism.

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